The absence of coordinated work by various departments at the local level — this is one of the great evils impeding economic construction. Enormous attention must be directed to this question. The task of the economic councils is to eliminate this lack of coordination, to develop the independence of local institutions. Practical examples should be gathered in order to achieve a better organization of the matter and to make examples of success serve as models for all. Under the extreme necessity for provisions, for example, it was natural and inevitable that there be the greatest restriction of the independence of localities in the use of grain that had been collected. With appropriate control and to the extent of the increase in grain reserves, this independence must be expanded. By this means one can and must achieve a reduction of bureaucratism, a curtailment of transportation, an encouragement of production, an improvement of the condition of peasants and workers. Provisions — small local industry — fuel — large state-wide industry, and so forth, all these areas are tightly bound together, and the "departmental" division of them, necessary for the administration of the state,

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